ARC Fellows

Noʻu Revilla

ARC Fellow, Poet, and Educator
Noʻu Revilla was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with University of Hawaiʻi – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Noʻu Revilla (she/her/ʻo ia) is an ʻŌiwi poet and educator. Born and raised on the island of Maui, she prioritizes aloha, gratitude, and collaboration in her practice. Her debut book ASK THE BRINDLED (Milkweed Editions 2022) won the 2021 National Poetry Series and 2023 Balcones Prize. She also won the 2021 Omnidawn Broadside Poetry prize with her poem “iwi hilo means thigh bone means...

Everardo (Ever) Reyes

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Everardo (Ever) Reyes (he / him & Rarámuri descent and Chicanx) is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology. He is a multi-instrumental musician and songwriter who enjoys the possibilities that improvisation provides. His research focuses on the intersections between music, social movements, and Indigenous self-determination. Ever is also a co-creator of the Indigenous Sound Studies working group, which is supported by the Center of Race and Gender and the University of California Berkeley.

Laura Richard

Spring 2010 ARC Fellow and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UC Santa Cruz
Laura Richard was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate category.

Laura Richard works in modern and contemporary art with a designated emphasis in film. Her recently completed dissertation, “In Situ and On Location: The Early Works of Maria Nordman,” is a political reappraisal of the films, performances and rooms made by the artist between 1967 and 1979. Other current research interests include Judy Chicago’s smoke works, theories of temporality and the everyday, avant-garde women filmmakers, human geographies, performance art,...

Jared Robinson

ARC Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley in English
Jared Robinson was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Jared Robinson is a poet and critic from Indianapolis, Indiana. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of English, where his work has been supported by the Arts Research Center and the Black Studies Collaboratory. He writes and thinks about autobiography, his own and those penned by others, across multiple mediums. He is currently at work on a dissertation...

Marina Romani

ARC Fellow, Multimedia Writer and Artist, Translator, and Professor at UC Berkeley
Marina Romani was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Marina Romani (she/they) is a multimedia writer and artist, editor, translator, educator, and performer of Western classical music and Afro-Caribbean music. She holds a PhD in Italian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies from UC Berkeley. She is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley, teaching upper-division courses in sociology of culture and cross-cultural communications.

Marina taught courses on language, cinema, literature,...

Paul Roquet

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor in Media Studies and Japan Studies at MIT's Comparative Media Studies & Writing Program
Paul Roquet was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2009 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Paul Roquet is an associate professor in media studies and Japan studies at MIT's Comparative Media Studies / Writing program. His research focuses on how media becomes environmental and the implications of this mediation on everyday spatial awareness.

Roquet's first book, Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (University of Minnesota Press, 2016; available open access via Manifold and PDF), delves into the use of music, video art, cinema, and literature to...

Ilya Y. Rostovtsev

ARC Fellow and Audio Software Engineer at Meta
Ilya Y. Rostovtsev was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Ilya Y. Rostovtsev is a membrane shaker, wind maker, sound lover, pixel pusher, geometry enthusiast. He is an undergrad in math, has a PhD in music, and now a job in software engineering. Rostovtsev is Russian-Texan-Californian-Washingtonian, and still a quarter Lithuenian. He works to help you make art things, tunes, flashing lights, bleeps and bloops, pixel dances, and other things boring grownups claim is a waste of time.

Måsi Santos

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Måsi Santos (she/her) is an Indigenous Pacific Islander (Chamoru) from the Mariana Islands in Micronesia, specifically Luta and Guåhan. She received a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a master’s degree in English (Linguistics emphasis) from the Unibetsedåt Guåhan, and is a PhD student in the Berkeley Linguistics Department. As a speaker of her Indigenous language (Chamoru), she is a staunch advocate for reclamation and revitalization of Indigenous languages in her homelands and worldwide.

Kim Sauberlich

ARC Fellow Assistant Professor of Musicology at the College of Charleston
Kim Sauberlich was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Kim Sauberlich is an Atlantic Music scholar who focuses on the intersection of embodied performance and racialized knowledge production. Sauberlich's dissertation and book project entitled Black Orpheus: Musical Scenarios in Atlantic Rio de Janeiro (1808-1888) examines Atlantic performances in the city of Rio de Janeiro, from the 1808 transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil’s 1888 official abolition of slavery. Rio was the only city in the history of modern empires...

Alex Saum-Pascual

ARC Fellow, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at UC Berkeley
Alex Saum-Pascual was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Alex Saum-Pascual is a (digital) poet and professor. She is author of #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2018) and numerous articles, special issues and book chapters on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world, being featured in The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Revista...